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1.		Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
		1126 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago \| 668 comments
2.		Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
		814 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago \| 309 comments
3.		OpenJev (openjev.com)
		699 points by ilreb 1 day ago \| 286 comments
4.		Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
		463 points by f311a 1 day ago \| 110 comments
5.		Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (techcrunch.com)
		920 points by pluc 1 day ago \| 816 comments
6.		Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)
		225 points by HenryNdubuaku 2 days ago \| 91 comments
7.		Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (claude.com)
		715 points by datadrivenangel 1 day ago \| 270 comments
8.		Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (ledger.com)
		214 points by synack 1 day ago \| 87 comments
9.		A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos (hacktron.ai)
		484 points by Handy-Man 2 days ago \| 206 comments
10.		Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash (qwen.ai)
		338 points by jjcm 2 days ago \| 135 comments
11.		I don't like passkeys (hawksley.dev)
		822 points by ethanhawksley 1 day ago \| 787 comments
12.		Jemalloc 5.4.0 (github.com/jemalloc)
		332 points by gkfasdfasdf 2 days ago \| 94 comments
13.		Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
		315 points by nashashmi 2 days ago \| 253 comments
14.		Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (ferstar.org)
		328 points by csmantle 1 day ago \| 110 comments
15.		Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
		102 points by rochansinha 1 day ago \| 18 comments
16.		The scourge of x86 emulation (fex-emu.com)
		287 points by dagmx 2 days ago \| 94 comments
17.		How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? (mathoverflow.net)
		156 points by jjgreen 4 days ago \| 146 comments
18.		Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (archive.org)
		215 points by succinct_ideas 2 days ago \| 109 comments
19.		Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
		190 points by axiologist 2 days ago \| 71 comments
20.		Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (sci.news)
		103 points by embedding-shape 4 days ago \| 61 comments
21.		The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)
		156 points by ChrisArchitect 2 days ago \| 53 comments
22.		US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report (cnn.com)
		500 points by realsarm 1 day ago \| 384 comments
23.		C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
		168 points by ibobev 2 days ago \| 275 comments
24.		Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
		80 points by gone35 3 days ago \| 28 comments
25.		Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him (nytimes.com)
		314 points by saimiam 1 day ago \| 214 comments
26.		How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
		232 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago \| 106 comments
27.		North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes (science.org)
		219 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| 179 comments
28.		Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (developer.apple.com)
		150 points by CameronBanga 1 day ago \| 110 comments
29.		I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture (overreacted.io)
		261 points by m-hodges 1 day ago \| 290 comments
30.		How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms (uber.com)
		117 points by iscmt 2 days ago \| 49 comments
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